Samarkand: A ‘living museum’ on the Silk Road grapples with a tourism boom

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As the sun sets over Samarkand’s majestic Registan, its last rays glint across the turquoise mosaics. Dusk settles on the ancient square where great trade routes have crossed for centuries.Read the full story, “Samarkand: A ‘living museum’ on the Silk Road grapples with a tourism boom”, on globalissues.org →